Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes
Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
Quotes to Explore
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction.
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I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
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It's much easier to gain control over a mass population when you pit them against each other.
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Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
